Faculty Carrels

Eligibility

All members of the faculty of West Texas A&M University who are engaged in:
- Specific research projects that require library materials which can not, or can only with difficulty, be used away from the library
- Projects requiring facilities for uninterrupted study or writing
- Examples of projects:
  - Writing a dissertation, book, or research paper
  - Preparing a grant proposal or course syllabus
  - Performing a University committee function requiring extensive use of Library materials
Graduate students who are working on their thesis, only after faculty needs have been met.
Retired faculty who are engaged in research or writing for publication, only after all faculty and graduate student needs have been met.

Applications are available in the Library Administration office.
Applications should be made, if possible, by the last class day of the semester preceding the one in which the study is to be used.
Studies will be assigned for the specific project, for one semester at a time (fall, spring, summer) with the option of renewal for one additional semester. Applications for shorter periods, even a few weeks, are in order.

You will need to request a key in the Library Administration office -- please allow 3 days for processing. Note: There is a replacement fee for lost keys.
Be sure to log in on the faculty carrel registration sheet at the Circulation desk.
Double or multiple assignments to a single carrel may be made if it is agreeable to the parties concerned.

Carrels may be renewed for a second semester by notifying the University Librarian by the last class day of the semester.
Carrels may be renewed for a third semester:
- only if space remains after all other applicants have been assigned carrels, or
- the faculty member can demonstrate -- by documented regular extensive use of the study and evidence of continuing research or scholarship produced in that study -- that the denial of a renewal for third consecutive semester would result in a hardship situation.

It is your responsibility to return your key to the Physical Plant and to notify the University Librarian.
If you fail to vacate your carrel at the end of the semester, the study will be cleared of all library materials and personal effects.

Any questions? Ask a Librarian, or call us at 806/651-2215.